Etheyl Woodwell Tue Aug 25, 2015 10:14 pm
Etheyl's brow furrows. "No, no...not really, I put that wrong. I'd never intend to hold it over your head like that."
Her chin comes to rest on her hand thoughtfully, thinking over her own offer.
"I'm offering to take your mark regardless. I know the thought of it...burns at you. I just want to help. I think a lot of me did hope that it would make trusting him less...appealing as a whole, but," she shakes her head earnestly, "no, I'd never hold out on you like that.
"And yeah, there's the flaw that I'm really only 'freeing' one person. But for both of our peace of mind, I hammered out the details of the mark with Lexa. Only one of those marked really needs to be present at any time. Susan and Val have been fine, and I didn't even know my uncle had one, which supports that. If I had the mark, assuming Lexa didn't tire of me I could stay by her side and everyone else wouldn't be breaking the bond. So while the threat of the mark is still there, it...may not even effect them much at all. What I can do is take that threat and obligation off you."
She sits bolt upright before Azazel can respond. "Shit, speaking of threat...
"Again, the details of the mark. The marked are to...aid and protect her in her quest, and also barred from harming her without Oghma's consent, but also from actively preventing her from completing it. Now he's probably too high and mighty to care for most of the task, but this ritual of Cyrill's seems to me like it'd be preventing her from her fulfilling her destiny. Cyrill completely aside, it could be dangerous. I don't really know."
